WSET LEVEL 4 2025/2026 QUESTION AND SOLUTIONS
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✔✔How many grape varietys are used as a crossing? give a exampel - ✔✔Technically
every grape variety.
Exempel : carbernet sauvingnon is a crossing of carbernet franc and sauvingnon blanc.
✔✔Hybrids:
Explain was a hybrid is - ✔✔Is a vine whose parents come from two different vine
spicies
✔✔Explain what grafting is - ✔✔a technique used to join a rootstock to a v.vinifiera
variety.
✔✔What is the most comment technique ? - ✔✔bench grafting
✔✔Grafting:
What is the second commend one? Explain what that is - ✔✔Head grafting. tow canes
are held secure with tape,
✔✔What a vine needs:
explain how the growing season start and ends. - ✔✔Budburst in spring. Under late
spring and early summer the vine flowers and small grapes form. As the summer
progresses the grapes grown but are still hard in texture, green in colour, with haigh
levels of acidity and low levels of sugar. In the late summer or early autumn the grapes
starts to ripen. After the grapes are harvest in autumn the growing season is coming to
a end.
✔✔A vine need 5 things - ✔✔heat, sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, nutrients
✔✔ there are two components in food that tend to make wines taste `harder. Name
them - ✔✔Sweetness and umami
✔✔There are two components that makes wine taste "softer". Name them - ✔✔Salt and
acidity
✔✔A sweetness in a dish can make a dry wine seem less - ✔✔Fruity and taste
unpleasanty acidic
✔✔what is a good general rule with dishes containing sugar? - ✔✔To select a wine that
has a higher level of sweetness than the dish.
✔✔Umami in food increases the perception of? - ✔✔Bitterness and Astringency, Acidity
and the warming effect of the alcohol in the wine.
RANKED A+
✔✔How many grape varietys are used as a crossing? give a exampel - ✔✔Technically
every grape variety.
Exempel : carbernet sauvingnon is a crossing of carbernet franc and sauvingnon blanc.
✔✔Hybrids:
Explain was a hybrid is - ✔✔Is a vine whose parents come from two different vine
spicies
✔✔Explain what grafting is - ✔✔a technique used to join a rootstock to a v.vinifiera
variety.
✔✔What is the most comment technique ? - ✔✔bench grafting
✔✔Grafting:
What is the second commend one? Explain what that is - ✔✔Head grafting. tow canes
are held secure with tape,
✔✔What a vine needs:
explain how the growing season start and ends. - ✔✔Budburst in spring. Under late
spring and early summer the vine flowers and small grapes form. As the summer
progresses the grapes grown but are still hard in texture, green in colour, with haigh
levels of acidity and low levels of sugar. In the late summer or early autumn the grapes
starts to ripen. After the grapes are harvest in autumn the growing season is coming to
a end.
✔✔A vine need 5 things - ✔✔heat, sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, nutrients
✔✔ there are two components in food that tend to make wines taste `harder. Name
them - ✔✔Sweetness and umami
✔✔There are two components that makes wine taste "softer". Name them - ✔✔Salt and
acidity
✔✔A sweetness in a dish can make a dry wine seem less - ✔✔Fruity and taste
unpleasanty acidic
✔✔what is a good general rule with dishes containing sugar? - ✔✔To select a wine that
has a higher level of sweetness than the dish.
✔✔Umami in food increases the perception of? - ✔✔Bitterness and Astringency, Acidity
and the warming effect of the alcohol in the wine.
